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The Story of Lincoln. 

BOUT the time that the colo- 
iiios ill America had thrown 
off the British yoke and gained 
their freedom, a great tide of 
immigration set in toward the 
West. The people who had 
heen west of the Alleghanies returned with 
wonderful tales of the beautiful country- which 
they had seen. Although the way was beset 
by many dangers, and cruel savages waited to 
waylay and kill the new settlers, many were 
willing and anxious to risk all to find a home 
in this new land of Kentucky. 

Among others that traveled along the wilder- 
ness road leading into Kentucky, was a family 
by the name of Lincoln. When they reached 
their journey's end, Mr. Lincoln obtained a 
large tract of land. The lurking savages were 
still dangerous, so the new settlers had to hve 
in or near the forts. 



4 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

Mr. Lincoln at once bep^'an to clear the timber 
from his land. This was a very dan<i^orous task 
because of the Indians. About two years Avent 
by when one day as Mr. Lincoln was in his 
clearing with little Tom, only six years old, an 
Indian crept up behind some brush and killed 
the father. He then leaped out and seized the 
little boy and started off with him. Two of the 
older Lincoln boys were working near and hur- 
ried to the rescue. One of them shot the In- 
dian and saved his little brother. 

The death of the father was a very serious 
matter to a poor family left in a new country. 
Little Tom seems to have had to shift for him- 
self and get his living as best he could. And 
only a living it was, for schooling he had none. 
All the writing he could do was to barely scrawl 
his name, but although he was ignorant and 
poor, he Avas honest and very well thought of 
by his neighbors. 

When he was about twenty-five years old he 
bought a farm, and not a great while after he 
married a sw^eet young girl named Nancy 
Hanks. The young wife's new home was a 
rude log cabin, but almost all of the buildings 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 5 

in Kentucky at that time were built of logs, so 
it was just as good a home as most of the peo- 
ple had. 

It was in this humble home on the 12th of 
February, 1809, that Abraham Lincoln was 
born. His proud parents named him Abraham 
for his grandfather, who had been killed by the 
Indians. Although the Lincoln home was 
poverty stricken and bare of the common com- 
forts of life, it held a happy family. 

When Abraham was four years old the fam- 
ily moved to another cabin very much like the 
first. The family Avere still very poor. The 
mother often took her rifle and hunted game 
to supply the family table. She killed bear 
and deer, dressed the meat with her own 
hands, and the skins she fashioned into cloth- 
ing, moccasins, and caps. But through all this 
toil and hardship the busy mother found time 
to spend with her children. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were determined 
their children shoidd not grow up ignorant. 
Abraham had his first lessons in reading and 
spelling from his mother. Years afterward he 
said one of the first things he could remember 



6 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

was sitting at her feet with his sister, eagerly 
hstening to her tell thein fairy tales and 
legends. 

When the little lad was seven years old, 
Zachariah Riney came into the neighborhood 
and the Lincoln children attended their first 
school. This did not last long and soon Caleb 
Hazel succeeded Riney as Lincoln's teacher. 

The chances for schooling were rare, being 
largely a matter of chance. Sometimes a 
young man waiting for something better to 
turn up Avould teach a term or two, and board 
round with the families from which he hud 
pupils. The parents could only afford to pay 
the teacher a. little, and usually looked for 
someone >vith a strong and ready arm to keep 
the big bo3^s in order. 

Abraham was a very bright bo.y in school, in- 
deed he went far ahead of the rest of his class- 
mates. He was not satisfied with what he 
learned in the daytime but studied in the even- 
ings. As the}^ could not afford caniites, he cut 
up spicewood twigs and burned them for a 
light. 

In those early limes preaching services were 



THE STORY C)F LINCOLN 7 

licld out ofdoors. with the forest trees for a 
temple and a stump for an altar. The preach- 
ers traveled long distances from place to place, 
with somethnes months between visits. Abra- 
ham thought these traveling preachers most 
wonderful men, and would ride long distances 
to hear them. Ke admired them so much that 
he tried to do as they did. lie would gather 
his play] nates around him and preach and 
l^ound, until his audi^nice were frightened into 
tears. 

Thomas Lincoln grew tired of livijig in Ken- 
tucky. He decided he would seek a new home 
across the river in Indiana. He loaded his 
goods on a raft and started for the Ohio River. 
]]iit when he reached the middle of the river, 
tlie raft was upset, and all he owned was at the 
bottom of the Ohio. He managed to save a few 
things, borrowed an ox team, and stnrted to 
iind a good place to locate. 

Meanwhile, his family remained at the old 
liome anxiously awaiting his return. He came 
back with good news and the famil}' set out on 
tlieir journey. There were Mr. and Mrs. Lin- 
coln. Abe and his sister Sarah, and a cousin, 




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THE STORY OF LINCOLN 9 

Dennis Hanks. No doubt the children en- 
joyed the journey. The forest with its green 
trees, singing birds, and strange animals, was 
a never-ending wonder to these young people 
making their first journey away from home. 

When the travelers arrived at the spot Mr. 
Lincoln had chosen for his home, an axe was 
put into seven year old Abe's hand, and he 
was told to go to work to help make a clearing 
for the camp. 

There was no time to build a house, so a 
half-faced camp was put up to shelter them 
from the winter storms. Four posts were set 
in the ground, poles i)ut across the top and 
rude slabs fastened to them for a roof. Three 
sides were enclosed with poles chinked in with 
clay. The open side was screened with a cur- 
tain of skins. In one corner was a great fire- 
place made of sticks and mud. 

Times grew very hard for the Lincolns. 
Their furniture Avas at the bottom of the Ohio. 
They made chairs of rude slabs with pegs driven 
in for legs. The frame work of their bed was 
made of poles and covered with skins. The 
children slept on the floor on a pile of leaves. 



10 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

They had to use thorns for pins. No cloth was 
to be had, unless the mother spun and wove it 
herself. Little Abe wore buckskin trousers, a 
linsey-woolsey shirt dyed with bark or berries 
and buttoned with bits of cork covered with 
cloth. For a hat ho wore a coon skin cap with 
the tail hanging down behind. This Avas used 
both to trim the cap and for a handle to pull 
it off. 

In February, Mr. Lincoln and the boys be 
.i>:an to get the logs ready for tlie new home. 
The cabin, when it was finished, had only one 
room with a loft above. There was no door or 
window, not even a deer skin hung before the 
opening or a greased pa|)er over the hole that 
admitted the light. There was no floor but the 
liard packed earth. When the children went 
to bed at night they climbed to the loft by 
means of pegs driven into the walls. 

Is it any wonder that through all this suffer- 
ing and hardship the poor mother fell sick? 
Little Abe saw his first great sorrow when his 
mother folded her tired hands and went to her 
long rest. No one can imagine a more forlorn 
family than the Lincolns. Abe grieved bitterly 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 11 

in his loneliness. Lono* years after he said, 
"All that I am, or hope to he, I owe to my 
angel mother/' 

It was the custom in pioneer days to have a 
memorial sermon preached at any time within 
a year after the death of a person, as a preacher 
could rarely he had at the time of the funeral. 
So as soon as Mrs. Lincoln was huried, Abra- 
ham sat down and wrote his first letter to 
Parson Elkin in Kentucky, asking him to come 
and preach his mother's funeral sermon. 
After a long time he received an answer from 
the good man, and in the early summer, he 
kept his promise and preached Nancy Lincoln's 
funeral sermon. 

It was a most miserable household with little 
twelve year old Sarah at its liead. The three 
children soon grew shabby and ragged. Their 
principal food was venison and birds broiled 
over the coals or an ash cake of meal, which 
the father mixed. But the children seemed to 
flourish under this hard fare and Abe had one 
joy — books. The first books he read w(U'e the 
Bible, Aesop's Fables, and The Pilgrim's Prog- 
ress. He read and re-read these books. He 



12 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

knew many passages in them by heart and 
everyone of Aesop's Fables. 

He also read a life of Henry Clay, and Ram- 
sey's Life of Washington. He once borrowed 
Weem's Life of Washington from a neighbor 
and carried the treasure home in the bosom of 
his hunting shirt. He read late by the light of 
a tallow dip and then put the book in a crack 
between the logs for safe keeping. But the 
hiding place proved anything but safe, for a 
storm came up in the night and the book got 
wet. 

Abe hardly knew what to do, he certainly 
had no money to pay for the book. He carried 
it back to the owner, who pretended to be very 
cross and asked him what he proposed to do 
about it. The little boy offered to do what Mr. 
Crawford thought was right, so they bargained 
that Abe was to pull fodder three days. "Does 
that pay for the book or for the damage done 
to it?" asked wise Abe. 

"Wall I, allow," said Mr. Crawford, "that it 
won't be much account to me or anybody else 
now, and the bargain is that you pull fodder 
three days, and the book is yours." 



THE STORY OF LI^X^OLN 13 

This was the first book that Abe ever bought. 
In reading the Hfe of our great Washington his 
heart was stirred with a growing love for his 
country. He never forgot the lessons he 
learned reading of the brave struggles of our 
forefathers for independence. 

Mr. Lincoln went to Kentucky on a visit and 
returned with a new wife. This woman proved 
a very kind and wise mother to the neglected 
Lincoln children. She brought with her new 
furniture, a floor was put down in the cabin, a 
door made, and glass put into the windows. 
Everything began to look more homelike and 
comfortable. The house was full to over-flow- 
ing with children, for besides the three in the 
Lincoln family, Mrs. Lincoln had brought her 
own three children. The three boys climbed 
to their bed in the loft at night, and slept on a 
husk mattress so narrow, that, when one 
turned over, all three had to turn. 

Abe, about this time, got some new books. 
His mother said, "He read everything he could 
lay his hands on." Lincoln himself said that 
he read everything in the country for fifty miles 
around. Whenever he heard of a new book he 



14 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

forthwith went and borrowed it. The parts he 
wished to remember he copied down on a board 
with charcoal. Then when he got hold of 
paper, he would re -copy and memorize them. 
The wooden fireshovel was one of his favorite 
places for writing' and ciphering. When it 
became covered, he would shave the black part 
off and begin again. When he plowed a long 
furrow and stopped to let the horses rest, out 
came his book and he would read awhile, sit- 
ting on top of the rail fence. 

He could only go to school a few days each 
year, but it did not make much difference, as 
he soon knew all the rude teachers of the 
frontier could teach him. He had to work very 
hard. He said of those early days, that the axe 
was rarely out of his hand. When his father 
had no work, he hired out to the neighbors, for 
whom he did all kinds of work from carpenter- 
ing to tending the baby. 

But as much as he loved to read, and as hard 
as he had to work, he still found time to be 
with his friends. He knew so many jokes and 
could toll a story so well that he was a general 
favorite, and no gathering was complete with- 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 15 

out him. IIo was uinisually tall and strong 
for his aji'o and oxcollod in all the rude sports 
of pioneer days. He was known far and wide 
for his skill as a wrestler. 

He had a ])erfect passion for speech making; 
and often walked many miles to hear a speech. 
He had such a fine memory that he could re- 
peat sermons and speeches he heard, imitating' 
the orator even to the tones of voice and ges- 
ture. He practiced so much that his angry 
father said that he neglected his work, and that 
there was no getting any work from the hired 
men when Abe mounted a stump. In the habit 
of careful study, in the memorizing of the best 
in the books he read, and m his speech mak- 
ing, he was unconsciously fitting himself to ho 
a great leader of m(^n. Even then everyone 
listened eagerly to what he had to say. 

The only way the western people had of get- 
ting their produce to market was by taking it 
down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Abe 
begged his parents to let him build a fiat boat 
and make a trip down the river. Their con- 
sent was finally given, and he went to Avork on 
his boat. AVheii h<» liad it finishes] lie stood 



16 THE vSTORY OF LINCOLN 

looking at it, wondering; what he could do to 
mako it stronger. Some men came up looking- 
for a boat to take them out to a waiting steam 
])oat. J^incoln's boat was chosen and he pad- 
dled them out. When they were on board, Abe 
called to them that they had not paid him. 
Each then threw him a half dollar. He was so 
surprised for he had expected much less. He 
himself said, "I could not credit that I, a poor 
bo\', had earned a dollar in less than a day : 
that by honest work I had earned a dollar. I 
was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from 
that time." 

Soon after, a man hired him at eight dollars 
a month, to take a flat boat of produce to New 
Orleans. This trip was a great education to the 
back-woods boy, who was now seeing the 
world beyond his home for the first time. On 
this trip he got his first near view of slavery, 
and in seeing squads of human beings driven 
off to be sold he no doubt realized as he never 
had before, how serious a blot this custom was 
on a country said to be free. 

AVhen Abraham was twenty-one his father 
decided to move again, this time to Illinois. 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 17 

Youii^' Lincoln was a tall strong fellow of six 
feet and four inches. It was said, "he could 
strike the hardest blow with the axe or maul, 
jump higher and farther than any of his fel- 
lows, and that there was no one, far or near, 
that could lay him on his back. 

He helped his father get settled in his new 
home. He and Thomas Hanks split rails to 
fence ten acres of land. These were not the 
first rails by many, that he had made, yet these 
were the rails that gave him the nickname of 
"The Eail Splitter." Soon after he decided to 
start out in life for himself. He had another 
chance to go to New Orleans in a flat boat. 
Here again was he much impressed by seeing 
the slave markets. It is said that he remarked, 
"If ever I get a chance to hit that thing, I'll hit 
it hard." 

When Abraham came back from his river trip 
he went to clerk in a country store. Here, as 
everywhere, he became popular by his wit, 
learning, and honesty. Once when a man per- 
sisted in swearing when women w^ere present 
Lincoln took him out with the remark, "Well if 
you must bo whipped, I suppose I might as 



18 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

well whip you as any other man. " He knocked 
him down, rid)l>ed smart Aveed on his face until 
the man howled for mercy, then took him to 
the pump and washed his eyes for him. While 
Lincoln never fought for thr love of lighting, 
yet he was the unfailing- friend of law and order 
and the terror of every rogue. 

He still kept on with his studies, and tliat he 
might improve in speech making, he walked 
several mil(\s to attend the meetings of a debat- 
ing society. He vralked six miles to get the 
only English grammar to he had in the coun- 
try, and studied it diligently until he had it 
thoroughly mastered. In all his life he had 
had less than a year's schooling all told, but 
his experience had taught him that only 
through knowledge could he gain power over 
men. So knowledge he determined to have. 
He already saw that he was the equal of the 
great men of the country and could make a 
better speech than many. 

One day, hearing a candidate making a poor 
speech he mounted a box and made a far bett(>r 
one. The candidate was much interested and 
asked him ''where he had learned so much and 



THE :STORY OF LIXCOLX 19 

how he could do so Avell. " Ho thoii urged 
Lincohi to keep on with his study. 

Youn«: Lincohi soon announced tliat lie was 
a candidate for a public office , l>ut before the 
election, a war broke out with the Black Hawk 
Indians. Lincoln volunteered. He went to 
the north to join the regular troops at the head 
of a company of men from his own county. 
There he was chosen captain. A man by the 
name of Kirkpatrick wanted to be captain 
hut his own men insisted on Lincoln. So it 
was decided that all in favor of him should form 
a line on one side of the road, and all in favor 
of Kirkpatrick on the other. When tbo lines 
were formed, Lincoln's was found to be twice 
as long as the other, so he was declared elected. 
He afterwards said that nothing in his life had 
ever given him so much pleasure. 

Robert Anderson, a lieutenant, received Lin- 
coln's company into tbe service. This same 
Anderson was the man who commanded Fort 
Sumter when the first shot Avas fired that 
opened the great Civil War. TJio Black Hawk 
war was soon over and Lincoln was free to look 
after the office he wanted, but ho Avas defeated. 



20 THE vSTORY OF LINCOLN 

He was not much disappointed for he ran well 
in his own county, and had become so much 
better known over the state, that the next time 
he tried for office he was successful. 

He tried keeping* store but failed. He said 
his store "winked out" leaving him with a load 
of debt. It seemed to him so large that he 
spuke of it always as "the national debt.'' He 
began studying law, the lawyers good-naturedly 
lending him their books. Soon he took small 
^Qses for his neighbors, and was appointed 
jjostmaster of a village postoffice. As he could 
not be in one place all the time, he carried the 
postoffice in his hat. When anyone asked for 
mail he would take off his hat and sort over 
what w^as there. The newspapers that came, 
he always took time to read, before they were 
called, for by their owners. 

The little village melted away, as is the habit 
of western towns, and with it the postofhce. 
Lincoln then turned his attention to surveying, 
which he worked at for some time, still keeping 
up his law studies. When he was twenty-five 
he again ran for the State Legislature, and this 
time was elected. When his term was out he 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 21 

was again elected. During- this term he voted 
against slavery being extended, and he also 
met Stephen A. Douglas who Avas afterward to 
be his great rival. 

In 1837 Lincoln moved to Springfield, the 
new capital of Illinois, and there he lived until 
he was elected President. 

He had his few possessions packed into a 
pair of saddle bags thrown over the back of a 
borrowed h'^rse. So far he had been able to 
make only a very meager living, being ham- 
pered by his "national debt.'' He went to his 
friend, Josiah Speed's general store, and was 
dismayed to find that it would cost seventeen 
dollars to furnish a room. Mr. Speed felt so 
sorry for him when he saw his sadness, that he 
told liini he could share his room. Lincoln 
asked where it was and carried up his saddle 
bags. He came down laughing and said, 
"Speed, I am moved." 

Times grew more prosperous and he steadily 
gained favor and friends. He was very populai* 
in society because of his entertaining stories 
and his wit. He met and married Marv Todd. 



22 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

a witty, highly educated girl, who proved a 
good wife to him. 

Lincoln now turned longing eyes toward Con- 
gress and Washington, hut he had several times 
to step aside for other men, whom he thought 
had the hotter right to go. But his time came 
finally and he was elected. In Congress he 
attracted much attention. Every one listened 
when he got up to speak on any suhject. He 
had a style all his own, and he kept any com- 
pany in which he might he, in a perfect roar of 
laughter hy his droll stories. 

He was once taken hy a party of friends to 
see Ex-President Van Buren who was stopping 
at a dull hotel in a small town. ; Mr. Yan Buren 
said that the only drawback the visit had, was 
that his sides were sore for a week from laugh- 
ing at Lincoln's stories. When Mr. Lincoln's 
term at Washington was ended he went hack to 
Springfield and his law practice. He had met 
eastern men of great refinement and culture, 
and he felt his own lack of early training. So 
again he took up his studying, determined that 
h(^ would make himself the equal of the college- 
bred men. 



24 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

As the years went by, the country became 
more and more aroused over the question of 
slavery. The people of the North said that 
there should be no more slave states, while the 
South were determined to extend slavery. This 
question was discussed at all political meet- 
ings, and at last Lincoln felt that it was his duty 
once more to enter into a public life. He ran 
for State Senator against Stephen A. Douglas. 
Meetings were held all over the state by these 
men. Douglas w^ould make a speech and Lin- 
coln would follow^ him with another speech, 
answering him and asking such shrewd ques- 
tions that Douglas was often much embarrased 
to answer them. 

These speeches were printed all over the 
country. Lincoln was defeated, but by these 
great speeches he had become w^idely known all 
over the United States. People began asking 
who this man was who had worsted Stephen A. 
Douglas, the greatest speaker of that time. 

And, on learning of his early struggles, a 
great reverence filled their hearts for this won- 
derful man, who had won such great victories 
in his oAvii lif(\ Thev felt that he was the onlv 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 25 

man great enough and strong enough to save 
our country. 

In November, 1860, Abraham Lineohi was 
elected to the highest office in our land. AVhen 
the southern states heard of his election they 
began to announce that they were going to 
leave the United States and set up a govern- 
ment of their own. It was yet several months 
until Lincoln would be in office, so he could do 
nothing to stop the dreadful calamity that was 
coming upon the country. The President then 
in office helped the rebel states by sending 
government stores and arms to the southern 
forts. The seceding states seized these stores 
to help them carry on a Avar, should one come. 

The 4th of March finally came and Lincoln 
took the oath of office. The country was in an 
uproar. Everyone was asking what the new 
president would do. Would he be equal to the 
great task before him, of saving the Union? 
The question was soon answered. People soon 
found what a powerful man stood at the head 
of the nation. 

On the 12th of April Fort Sumter in Charles- 
ton harbor was fired upon, and brave Major 



26 THE STORY OP^ LINCOLN 

Anderson was forced to surrender. The South 
had fired the first shot and the whole North 
responded to Lincohis call for men to preserve 
and protect the UnioiL 

Troops were sent to tlie front, but many 
hoped that war would yet be avoided. Lincoln 
did all that could be done, but with no effect. 
The South went on with i)rei)arations for war, 
and was joined l)y yet more states. The bitter 
strug,2:le began between the slave states and the 
free states was to txo on for four lonjj^ years. 
It only ended when the South had used all her 
wealth and resources, and many, many brave 
men of both North and South had answered to 
the last roll call. 

Lincoln at first had had no idea of freein<i:the 
slaves. He oidy desired to save the Union and 
prevent slavery in new states. But as time 
went on, it w^as found that slavery must be 
done away with. So in September, 1862, Lincoln 
issued The Emancipation Proclamation. Slav- 
ery was abolished forever in this free country. 

There were in the President's family two 
little sons. AVillie and Tad, as they were called. 
These boys were i)assionatelv loved by tJieir 



2S THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

father. Visitors at the White House were often 
entertained by Mr. Lincohi with accounts of 
their pranks. Both fell very ill and soon it was 
known that Willie could not get well. Mr. 
Lincoln could scarcely get over this great blow. 
He had always been a very religious man, but 
from this time on he seems to have depended 
more and more on a Higher Power. As he 
once told a visiting committee, he was "deeply 
concerned not to know if the Lord was on his 
S4ide but if he was on the Lord's side." 

At the close of Lincoln's first term, and after 
:;. ).,y severe defeats, things began to look 
brighter for the Union. The President was the 
idol of the North, and well did he deserve the 
title of ' 'Father Abraham. ' ' The people showed 
the faith they had in him by electing him Pres- 
ident for the second term. Ho took the oath 
of office for the second time in March, 18G5. 
Soon after the glad news went over the country 
that the South had laid down their arms and 
the war was over. One of the last kind acts 
that Lincoln did, was to tell General Grant to 
let the conquered soldiers take their horses 
home to do their plowing. But wliile tlie coun- 



THE STORY OF LINCOLN 29 

try was in the midst of rejoicing because the 
great struggle was ended, the awful news came 
that President Lincoln had been shot. The joy 
had turned to grief, the flags that had floated 
so joyously were put at half mast. But the 
assassin's bullet could not undo what this great 
man had done. That our country is today a 
union unbroken is due to the wonderful efforts 
of Abraham Lincoln. 



O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! 

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done, 
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ; 
But O heart I heart ! heart ! 

O the bleeding drops of red, 
Where on the deck my Captain lies, 
Fallen cold and dead. 

O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; 

Piise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, 

For you bouquets and ribbon' d wreaths, for you the shores 

a-crowding, 
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning ; 
Here, Cai)tain ! dear father ! 

This arm beneath your head ! 

It is some dream that on the deck 

You've fallen cold and dead. 



30 THE STORY OF LINCOLN 

My Captain does not answer, liis lips are pale and still 
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor >yiJ1. 
The ship is anchor'.! safe and sound, its voyage closed and 

done, , 1 • i. 

From fearful trip the victor ship comes m with object won. 
Exult, O shores, and ring O bells ! 

But I with mournful tread 
Walk the deck my Captain lies 

Fiillen cold and dead. 

Jl^dJi II lii/tii'ii . 



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School Classic Senes 


(Continued) 


I.ITKRATURK 


2s The Miraculous Pitcher 


90 Selections from Lougfellow— I 


( Hawthorne) 
26 The Minotaur (Hawthorne) 


91 Story of Kugeiie Field 


119 Bryant's Thanatopsis, and Other 




Poems 




120 Selections from Longfellow— II 


FIFTH YEAR 


121 Selections from Holmes 




122 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 


NATURE 


(Browning) 


Q^ Story of Silk 




96 What We Uriuk (Tea, Coffee and 




Cocoa) 


SEVENTH YEAR 


HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY 


LITERATURE 


16 Western Pioneers 


13 Courtship of Miles Standish 


97 Story of tlie Xorsenie:i 


(Longfellow) 


99 Storj of Jefferson 


14 Evangeline (Longfellow) 


loi Story of Robert K. Lee 


15 Snowbound (Whi'tier) 


141 Story of Grant 


20 The Great Stone Face (Hawthorne) 




123 Selections from Wordswort'.i 


LITERATURE 


124 Selections from Shelley and Keats 


8 Kingof the Golden River (Ruskin) 


125 Selections from, tiie Merchant of 
Venice 


9 The Golden Touch (Hawthorne) 


107 Story of Robert Louis Stevenson 




loS History in Verse (Sheridan's Ride 




Independence Bell, The Blue and 


EIGHl H YEAR 


the Graj', etc.) 






LITERATI'RE 


SIXTH YEAR 


17 F'noch Arden (Tennyson) 

18 Vision of Sir Launfal (Lowell) 


LITERATURE 


ig Colter's Saturdav Nig!it ( Burns) 




23 The Deserted Viflage (Goldsmith) 


10 The Snow Image (Hawthorne) 


126 Rime of tlie Ancient Mariner 


II Rip Van Winkle (Irving) 


(Coleridge) 


12 Legeni^ of Sleepy Hollovv (Irving) 


128 Speeches of Lincoln 


22 Rah and His Friends 


I U Selections from Macbeth 


24 Three Golden Apples (Hawthorne) 


142 Scott's Lady of tlie Lake— Canto I 


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